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Quiz Here / Picrew Here

Theia Hawke:

"just necessary" is Theia's understanding of every horrific, manipulative, merciful, and heroic thing she ever did

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Adelaide Hawke:

This one's not as on the nose as Theia's (few things could be) but there is potential there, never empty; and I do like her as that pause, that desperate moment of trying to find balance before everything shatters. Compassion, quiet and eternal and maybe nothing changes, but at least it was there, seems very like an Adelaide-as-Goddess sort of thing.

The picrew's fun too, I enjoyed trying to figure out Theia & Adelaide, but both more and less, gods but lost, power sleeping. (I find it hilarious I went back and forth on Adelaide's eyes & eyebrows and then covered them up. 😅)

I read that and immediately had four different Shepards yelling at me in my head (I blame @shadoedseptmbr's Aedan tags) 🤣🤣🤣

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Weaver would in fact include hamster pictures, but they'd be macro pictures of like, whiskers and toes only.

The whole account would all only be macro photos. No tags, no comments, no explanations, no definitions. No time stamps or metadata, all expertly wiped, no location cues beyond maybe the quality of the light... which isn't that hard to manipulate after all, if you've got an omnitool and some good flashlight/spotlight blueprints.

It's all just exquisite close-ups of pieces of gravel and seeds and leaves and pollen or fractions of circuit boards and weird screws or clamps or the odd pattern of wear on a [redacted but clearly the Mako for those in the know] tire.

She and Aeden would clearly get along great.

When they were young & curious & annoyed that adults seemed to think they were adorable, (and that Ellie was an acceptable nickname, which it was not) they went by their full name, Ellington. (That did absolutely nothing to counter the adorable? It did successfully dissuade any lingering attempts at Ella or Ellie tho 🥰)

[carrotkake's / nyurei's / Wervty's Murmur]

They were Much Too Tired™️ (and living off cigarettes & hair dye) when they over-did college-type-nonsense and it was too hard to hold onto all those dumb syllables and dropped it down to just Ell:

[hunbloom's / Bright's Picrew Hell / djarn's]

(Ellington has a ridiculous collection of grandmother-reading-glasses/blue-light-blockers as they are slightly farsighted and also spend way too much time on assorted computer screens.)

They can be very appealing, not so much because they've figured out "charming" (tho they're better with people than any version of @angstmongertina's poor Lia) but because if they're interested they're completely focused, on the book, the technology, the news... or the person who has caught their eye. (Though they might very well just make you feel like they're daring you to try and keep being interesting?)

[Wervty's Chime / Black Centered Picrew / KZ's dolls]

They are Very Smart & kinda too intense for small-town-life & maybe a little intimidating. Just a little!

(ok probably more than a little?)

[toon me! / lulljevic's / baydews']

Ell is not quite sure why that means everyone wants them to be in charge of things, but competency apparently cannot be denied? Ugh.

If they're gonna be forced into this job, they're going to do it well (and look good while doing it).

Does your character daydream? What do/would they usually daydream about? Do these daydreams say anything about them or their goals?

Oh, hello there fairy! ❤️❤️❤️ It's nice to see you again. 😘

Anyways

Alessandra of Corval daydreams much in the same way Parker from Leverage *plans*, she turns problems around in her head, like 3-d locks, and if she pushes this tumbler the world goes *that* way, but if she lets that one slide we end up over *here*...

What's interesting about her daydreams is that they're almost never about a goal, but the *options*. She's not daydreaming about the treasure hidden at the center of a maze, but all the different ways the path might twist and turn and split apart around her.

She daydreams about how someone she loves might respond to bad news, until she thinks she knows the best way to soften the blow, how someone she despises would revel in success until she can figure out how to add a twist of a knife so their victory becomes, at best, slightly bittersweet.

ooooh, sapphy <3 

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Ella Shepard: 

Ella sort of had a girlfriend before the Raid, they were at the adorable puppy-eye stage, and were attempting to figure out how to word at each other well enough to actually go on their first date the day before she died.

(Her boyfriend after the Raid was a very unhealthy-fuck-buddies/distract-from-pain kind of thing, and he ended up joining a gang and trying to recruit her and she almost killed him when he didn’t want to take no for an answer, but hey! Biotic flare = Alliance recruitment so it all worked out. Eventually. Most of her other flings were pretty shallow, and an awful lot of them were assholes; she likes the snarky, and sometimes gets fooled by someone who’s legit that selfish & cynical rather than someone who’s exhausted and sarcastic about it.)

Her parents didn’t really have any family left when they ended up on Mindoir, so Ella didn’t have any family post-Raid, and she and Joker never do have kids, but they foster a lot? I think? I never have figured out their life post-games. 

For friends... she has a lot of acquaintances, but before ME1 I’m not sure she had a lot of people she could call really close friends. (Outside of AU Lex & Meg obviously.) She gets there with the Normandy and all three of her crews, though. 

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Maia Ryder

Did I ever tell you about Maia’s Complicated Introduction To Angaran Family Structure Because Polyamory? (Basically Jaal of all people is forced to point out that if she trusts Reyes then he’ll trust Reyes and why is she trying to cut out her own heart, at which point Maia attempts to explain monogamy and Jaal is horrified.) Angara have Mothers and Fathers and Cousins and there are a lot of different words they have to differentiate degree of connection that English just doesn’t get and the translation and interpretation of that takes ages. There’s a different word for your husband’s wife who you are also married to vs your wife’s husband with whom you have a platonic relationship and siblings with the same parents vs siblings of siblings that all have overlapping parents, and your biological sister vs raised by the same group of mothers even if your biological parents are different sister vs your spouse’s sister (and which version of sister it is over on that side) and if she didn’t have a SAM keeping track Maia would have wandered around with flashcards or a notebook or something for like, five years before she got it all mostly figured out. 

Evfra and Keema grumpily show up to Maia and Jaal’s wedding as Reyes’ cousins because he can’t very well stand there without a family web at all when his fiance’s getting married and it gets very weird for awhile for the humans. (Reyes and Jaal are never really friends but they do eventually make good family.)Jaal convinces the entire Tempest Crew to stand up as Maia’s & Morgan’s extended family, not that it took much effort. 

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ADELAIDE AND SEBASTIAN never really fell in love with anyone before each other, or after. Which is perhaps a little sad? They had lots of children, which helped them both get over some of their Family Issues, but also gave them both a few panic attacks because every other family either of them ever tried to have is dead.

tagged by @evilsapphyre; tagging @theherocomplex @thedivinemissema @tarysande @balyhane @elfyourmother

Adelaide Hawke does not know how to flirt but is probably accidentally adorable?

Ella Shepard is much better at it... depending a bit on one’s definition of flirting, I suppose

Theia Hawke is the best tho

Icy Yaling just pines very seriously

Maia Ryder has more fun with it

you’re mean

so mean

Uh. Like. My interpretation of bit-parts & NPC’s is almost OC-ing? And then there’s the literal video game protags. SO MANY OF THEM. HOW DO I CHOOOOOSE? There’s even a couple very neglected original fiction people. 

I’m gonna stick with the video games I think.

Adelaide Hawke

Theia Hawke

Ella Shepard

Nathalie of Revaire? MAaaaybe. Uh. Crap, I never did get around to putting the briagde of problem-princesses from 7kpp on my OC page. You have reminded me that my OC page is a disaster, thanks ever so much

adfjkglhd

thank you nonny

most of them would love that, the world needs more hugs 

though obviously ask first, a not insignificant proportion would punch someone who attempted to glomp them without warning

/and maybe not Theia at all? Not that she does not DESPERATELY need more hugs, but she won’t admit that, and you could get into trouble. No one needs Theia trouble

Except Merrill, who finds it invigorating and also can hold her own

or distract her with sex. or blood magic. or both at once?